On the final night of the 2007-11 term, the Metro Council solidly got behind former Vice Mayor Howard Gentry on Tuesday to be the next Davidson County Criminal Court clerk. But each of the five candidates received at least one vote.

You can look at who voted for whom here. To my mind, a couple of interesting votes came from the sometimes-mistaken-for-each-other “JaHoll” councilmen. (Yes, I just made up that phrase.)

While Jamie Hollin advised Councilman Michael Craddock’s aborted mayoral campaign earlier this year, he voted for a different candidate Tuesday: Steven Murff, a former longtime Davidson County court official who probably had the most technical expertise to do the job.

Meanwhile, Jason Holleman, who recently defeated a challenger Mayor Karl Dean endorsed in a race both sides seemed to feel democracy itself was hinging on, voted not for Craddock – the man whose election would have been the biggest blow to Dean – but for Gentry, whom Dean has spoken highly of. (“The mayor and I never talked about this,” Gentry told reporters after the vote. “If I was the mayor’s choice, I’m proud of that.”)

At the same time, council members Emily Evans and Mike Jameson, who are good friends of Holleman’s and have also butted heads with Dean’s administration, joined Hollin in voting for Murff, not Craddock. Craddock’s support came entirely from fellow conservatives, while Gentry put together a coalition of African-Americans, progressives and moderates.